word thinkings

[Fyxen]

 "bye" is it a separation greeting
or a memetic word programer that tells you to "buy" more things
but because the two words are spelled differently you don't notice that its telling you to buy more stuff

[AFK]

Probably caused a lot of confusion at Billy Mays' funeral. 

[memy]

What, are you serious?

or

What are you, serious?

[Fyxen]

Probably caused a lot of confusion at Billy Mays' funeral. 

heh.

interesting.

that would cause a bit of confusion

[Fyxen]

What, are you serious?

or

What are you, serious?

yes I'm serious think about it
about all thoughs people that have shopping problems its because they have been telling eachother to have a "good bye"

[Triple Zero]

if that were true, shopping addiction should be significantly less in countries where they speak a language where these two words are not homonyms.

[LMNO]

In other breaking news, "GOD" is simply "DOG" spelled backwards. 


Really makes, you think, doesn't it?



LMNO
-parks in the driveway, and drives on the parkway.

[AFK]

Why is it when it arrives by truck it is called a shipment but when its on a ship its called cargo? 

The words
they are broked!

[Elder Iptuous]

as 'bye' is a truncated version of 'goodbye', which is derived from 'God be with you', it is easy to see that the masters of our language are attempting to inculcate the connection between consumerism and communion with divinity....

[Nephew Twiddleton]

What Iptuous said.
I ran into a dude once on the bus who decided to talk to me for the remainder of the trip 
Anyway I was reading about dragons, cuz I was and still am a dork, and he infered the meaning of the word to be "drag-on" and how dragons were a symbol of life's drudgery and how we oppress ourselves. I liked the theory, but the man was clearly off his nut (in retrospect I think that he might have been Nuwaubian and was trying to impart his overstanding of words to me), and I didn't have the heart to tell him that dragon comes from the Latin draco. Found out later in my handy-dandy dictionary with 100% of your recommended daily allowance of etymology that draco comes from the Greek drakein, indicating that a dragon is something that looks around in the manner of a crocodile. Go figure. Had nothing to do with dragging whatsoever. Long story short he kept dissecting words and imparting his overstanding. We had some polite good-buys and I continued onto work.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that the origin of particular words and phrases can be quickly discovered by looking in a good dictionary or a quick internet search.

[LMNO]

There was a belief system in the 60s that was an offshoot of the black power movement that specialized in breaking down words to create a new meaning, but was completely wrong in etymology terms.  One of the more common being "History is only His Story".  I think Sun Ra was a big believer in that.  I'd do some more digging, but I'm a little busy, and a lot lazy.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

There was a belief system in the 60s that was an offshoot of the black power movement that specialized in breaking down words to create a new meaning, but was completely wrong in etymology terms.  One of the more common being "History is only His Story".  I think Sun Ra was a big believer in that.  I'd do some more digging, but I'm a little busy, and a lot lazy.

Yeah, the Nuwaubian movement. It's still around

[Elder Iptuous]

there's been some good wiki fodder today!
thanks NT....

[Nephew Twiddleton]

there's been some good wiki fodder today!
thanks NT....

No problem, I forgot how I first heard of them, but it was way after meeting this bus guy, but made total sense of his position on the meaning of words.

[LMNO]

There was a belief system in the 60s that was an offshoot of the black power movement that specialized in breaking down words to create a new meaning, but was completely wrong in etymology terms.  One of the more common being "History is only His Story".  I think Sun Ra was a big believer in that.  I'd do some more digging, but I'm a little busy, and a lot lazy.

Yeah, the Nuwaubian movement. It's still around

Ah.  I forgot what it was called.  If I recall, there's a lot of sloppy faux-kabalistic number theory, as well.